Jane Skingley

Contemporary Artist

Jane Skingley is known for her dramatic seascapes and cloud paintings, evoking calm and capturing the spirit of a place. Working in oils, she builds rich, layered compositions using brush, palette knife, and flicked paint over weeks. Her instinctive process focuses on mood, atmosphere, and depth.

Her recent Hokusai-inspired works take a more abstract turn, exploring the sea’s energy and unpredictability. Influenced by 19th-century Japanese woodblock prints, she paints on vintage book pages whose foxing and patina add warmth and history. These pages are rapidly painted in a wabi-sabi spirit—embracing imperfection—then composed into wave forms and collaged onto canvas.

Skingley has exhibited at the Royal College of Art, the Royal Society of Marine Artists, and Glyndebourne, and has completed major commissions including a 2017 WWF climate change project for the Houses of Parliament. In 2023 she won the Curator’s Choice Art Prize for Berkshire Open Studios and is resident artist at The Base arts centre in Berkshire. Her work is shown at art fairs in London and New York and is held in collections worldwide.

A Geography graduate from Durham University, she previously worked in PR before becoming a full-time artist.